Rakuten India On Hiring Spree As It Opens New Office In Bengaluru

Rakuten’s India unit plans to hire 1,000 employees over the next two years in the country. It has recently opened a new office Rakuten - Crimson House Bengaluru. 

Rakuten's India office is the company's argest one outside of Japan. The company said that the new office would aid its product, engineering, and advanced research. It represents a further expansion of the company’s global technology footprint and will focus on developing and delivering a wide range of cross-industry deep technology solutions to help drive digital transformation and innovation for customers and partners, said the company. 

Sunil Gopinath, CEO, Rakuten India told BusinessLine, “Rakuten has taken a 10-year, long-term view bet on Rakuten India, and is committed to making the investments needed in India. We are a team of around 2,000 employees and plan to be a 3,000-people team in less than two years. We are delighted to showcase our growth ambitions in India with the opening of our new office building.” 

The office has opened up at Cubbon Park, and is a 20-storeyed building which is strategically located in the city’s central business district. It has the capacity to house over 3,000 employees. 

Rakuten India enables global businesses in the areas of e-commerce, fintech, advertising, mobile, content, and entertainment with expertise in the areas of data science and engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud, security, distributed systems, and more. Gopinath said a significant chunk of businesses across all the areas are built and run out of India